James wrote:Sometimes these problems can be tricky to nail down. It is possible that it's some problem along the way to the server that might only impact certain regions. But the SQL error reported on the site suggests a very different story. I haven't run into the lag yet, but I check every once and a while.

What does the SQL error signify, James?

Also, I've encountered no lagging or any other issue today, thus far.

Did you read the last part of my initial post though, where I mentioned about the Avast 'malicious item' detection in Foreign Kingdoms? It seemed to originate from off-site hosted images or avatars.

The 'too many connections' error is pretty much just that. It is the server claiming that too much is going on [too many requests for data from the database] and that it's laying the law down. Except that shouldn't really be happening in this forum.

Mitsunari wrote:Did you read the last part of my initial post though, where I mentioned about the Avast 'malicious item' detection in Foreign Kingdoms? It seemed to originate from off-site hosted images or avatars.

That's probably nothing. Avast likes to throw out 'false positives' in scenarios like this when dealing with the occasional avatar loaded from a third-party site. It might be associated with something unrelated on the source website. If that happens see if there's some way to get more information and find out which avatar has triggered the warning (image name), and let me know what page it is happening on.

Uhh, there's more major lagging with loading times at my end...it's localised to SoSZ, not any other website I visit is affected by such lagging, not even KMA. It started around 5pm GMT and only eased around 10:50pm GMT, with a few consecutive 'Problems Loading Page' messages thrown in.

Is the hosting provider for this forum carrying out any server maintenance etc? Other than that, I'm a tad stumped, unless it's a browser issue?

If any of you are interested in helping out, here's something you can do. Next time a problem comes along check to see if KMA is experiencing problems as well. If KMA is loading properly, perform a 'traceroute' to both Scholars of Shen Zhou and KMA.

1) Go to http://network-tools.com2) Choose 'Trace' on the left-hand menu3) Enter 'kongming.net' or 'the-scholars.com' in the text field below.4) Click 'Go!'5) Let the numbers finish loading (there might be a delay if the server isn't responding properly) and copy the results for both trace routes to this page.

SoSZ and KMA are hosted with the same provider, but on different servers. If one is working but the other struggling this might provide very helpful information to provide the host with. Also, please include the exact time the traceroute was completed.